Favorite Zulu Movie

[Greg C.]

i havent seen zulu dawn, but i like zulu enough to say it is my favorite.

[Bromhead24]

Zulu is a great movie but really lacking in historical fact.
Actually there is hardly anything historically correct in that film. Having said that.....it's still a great film.

Zulu Dawn is far more accurate but it still has a few flaws. I like them both.
I have the letterbox versions of both and i spliced them together to the correct time frame from the actual events. It makes for better viewing and you get a better sence of whats going on.

[Bromhead24]

For those of you who are interested, this link connects you to the full movie script for"Zulu Dawn"
I find it very interesting, there are alot of changes from this version to what is actually said in the film..

www.awesomefilm.com/script/zuludawn.txt

[Greg C.]

i dont need to see the movie now!

[TexasMac]

Jiminy! Thar's only THREE Zulu movies, right?? (Zulu, Zulu Dawn, Shaka Zulu,....anymore?) I'll say that I like Zulu better than Zulu Dawn. I couldn't sit through Shaka without getting bored.

[Bromhead24]

Shaka was ok but long. It's better to see it in parts like the way the History channel shows it.

[Bromhead24]

TexasMac said:

Jiminy! Thar's only THREE Zulu movies, right?? (Zulu, Zulu Dawn, Shaka Zulu,....anymore?) I'll say that I like Zulu better than Zulu Dawn. I couldn't sit through Shaka without getting bored.

Actually, there was another (kind of) Zulu movie, the title eludes me at the moment but it starred Susan Hayward as a Boer woman in the 1840's

There was a good battle scene where the Boers were in a wagon laggar and several thousend zulus attacked it for hours.

I'll try to remember the title.

[TexasMac]

Bromhead24 said:

Actually, there was another (kind of) Zulu movie, the title eludes me at the moment but it starred Susan Hayward as a Boer woman in the 1840's

There was a good battle scene where the Boers were in a wagon laggar and several thousend zulus attacked it for hours.

I'll try to remember the title.

Yeah, this sounds familiar, too, and the name escapes me.

[Bromhead24]

The movie was called "Untamed" 1955.
It was on TCM a few months ago but i didn't get a chance to see it.
Here is the bio of the film
www.imdb.com/title/tt0048767/

[TexasMac]

Bromhead24 said:

The movie was called "Untamed" 1955.
It was on TCM a few months ago but i didn't get a chance to see it.
Here is the bio of the film
www.imdb.com/title/tt0048767/

Hmm...I'm still drawing a blank on the story line. Perhaps, I hadn't seen it before afterall. I'll keep my eyes pealed for the next showing.

[TexasMac]

Bromhead24 said:

For those of you who are interested, this link connects you to the full movie script for"Zulu Dawn"
I find it very interesting, there are alot of changes from this version to what is actually said in the film..

www.awesomefilm.com/script/zuludawn.txt

GOOD! This makes it easy for me to find the one line in the movie that was not easy for me to forget.

BARTLE FRERE: "Let us hope then, that this will be the final solution to the Zulu problem."

This made me think the writer was trying to draw a parallel between Frere and Hitler.

BTW, that's don our tea-stained service helmuts to John Mills (he played Frere) who passed away a few days ago.

[neferetus]

Sorry to hear about John Mills' passing. Thanks for posting the info.

[Alam0 Mo]

Hi Folks

Having seen ZULU so many times I just had to go and see where it was made. Here I am at the actual site
where it was filmed up at Royal Natal Park in South Africa in 2003.

I was just blown away by it all as I was when I paid my first visit to the " Waynamo " back in February this year.

Mo.

[Greg C.]

wow, the land is just breathtaking!

[Bromhead24]

Hay Mo, Are you on the actual spot where the mission station was located? Was there anything left of the movie set? I would amagine that the park service made them remove everything.

[Alamo Mo]

Yes sadly at the end of the film what was left of the set was bulldozed into a pit and burnt then the hole was filled in and of course nature did it's own thing. They also moved the river back to it's original place. It is cool to walk around there as you really get a feel for what it was like during the making of the film.

Photo 1: Taken where Fred Hitch was shot in the leg
while sitting on the melee bag wall firing up at the Zulu snipers.

Photo 2: The spot where the Zulu's launched their first attack in the film and in the background is the hill where you first see the Zulu's appear in the film

All in all it was just mind blowing standing where they had filmed one of my favourite films.

Mo

[Alamo Mo]

Here are somemore photos from the ZULU film set taken in 2003:

Enjoy

Photo 1: Taken from where the first Zulu attack takes place in the film looking towards what would have been the mission station in the film.

Photo 2: Me standing where the final Zulu attack was launched looking towards the mission station in the film " Men of Harlech " and all that !!!!


Photo 3: The spot where Stanley Baker puts a drunken Jack Hawkins on to his cart in the film.

[Bromhead24]

Thanks Mo, got any more? if so please post them.


Mike

[TexasMacatWork]

Thanks for posting those pics, Mo. I'll understand if you never go back; afterall, who could stand that "butcher's yard" more than once!

[Greg C.]

Bromhead24 said:

Thanks Mo, got any more? if so please post them.


Mike

yeah, post some more if you have them